Slippers

Vanuatu

The Vanuatu brand, is a project entirely in Portuguese and was born December 13, 2010, supported by four models of flip flops unique in the world.

The flip flops shaped boards have been patented by the Nunes&Moraes Company, on December 23, 2010 in Portugal and Brazil, followed by some countries in continental Europe, Asia, America and Oceania.

In Vanuatu, brought to the World, a flip flop design that until now did not exist, presenting all those who seek the difference in exclusives and above all the innovation and the ability to create.

Use a Vanuatu, is to be different, be unique and is above all is irreverence in their pure state.

The Vanuatu, in addition to very comfortable, are very ergonomic, transforming the simple walk into a source of pleasure.

In present days, the Vanuatu is already known across borders by the quality of our product and recognized in a demanding market such as footwear, is already a reality unequivocally.

The Vanuatu flip flops, are made in the PU with rounded forms in their final line which gives it a lack of creases. The quality of their materials and its careful production greatly enhance the standards of durability and comfort.

The paintings that characterize them high quality digital printing.

Inspiration

VANUATU ISLAND

Vanuatu is a Melanesian island nation, which occupies the islands of New Hebrides. It has maritime borders with the Solomon Islands in the north of the French territory of New Caledonia, and the Fiji Islands to the east. The capital is Port Vila.

The first island in the Vanuatu group to be discovered was the "Island of the Holy Spirit" in 1606 when the Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, saw it and thought it was a southern continent. The Europeans did not return the islands until 1768, when the French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville rediscovered the islands.

In 1744, Captain Cook named the islands the New Hebrides, a name that lasted until independence of the archipelago. It was in the nineteenth century that both Catholics and Protestant missionaries arrived in the islands. Settlers have also arrived in search of land for cotton plantations. When international cotton prices collapsed, the plantations were replaced by coffee, cocoa, bananas, and most successfully the coconuts.

HISTORY OF SURF

It is not known exactly when surf was born , but it is known this practice of gliding over the waves has long been practiced by the Polynesians, who settled them practically all the islands of the Pacific Ocean, and the Americas Pacific coast.

Early reports say that surfing was introduced by the Polynesian Tahiti King in Hawaii. Other reports indicate that long before the Hawaiians, ancient Peruvian peoples used already a kind of canoe, made of reeds, to glide over the waves. The first report about this sport was made by the navigator James Cook, who discovered the islands of Hawaii and saw the first surfers in action.

They used originally wooden planks to slide on the waves. The boards were manufactured by the users who believed that to make your own board gave them all the positive energies, and to practice the sport freed themselves from negative energies. However, the early practitioners of this sport believed that their practice was in fact a cult of the spirit of the sea in their original culture.